I just hate how Haise is treated in general by the CCG and Arima.
So Arima nearly kills Kaneki for Ghoul Crimes and they stick him in Cochlea. And obviously there was a quinque spear through his brain, so he loses his memories. So now they’ve got just this very injured, blind, completely lost child who has no clue even how his own body works, thrown in a cage, for all intents and purposes completely innocent.
So Arima goes “oh you know what would be a cool idea- Quinque But It Can Walk” and decides to take advantage of this guy. So he kneels next to him like a reassuring dad and tells him the CCG’s propaganda perspective of what he is: namely, a cannibalistic monster who kills people for fun and is the scum of the earth, you know. Just the birds and the bees. He’s something inherently evil, who has committed crimes barely imagineable, he’s barely more than an animal.
And he is told that there’s a reason that he’s in a cage.
But if he behaves himself, if he complies and doesn’t get any of his own ideas he can be allowed to live as a human (because only humans can be good) Under the CCG’s watchful eye, of course, because let’s not be unreasonable here. With some restrictions, as long as he can be of use to the CCG in helping them kill ghouls.
His memories being gone is perfect for Arima, because he’s a blank slate, he’s easy to manipulate and mold and create whatever he wants out of, with no consideration to the real person who this is affected by. Haise is treated with a front of kindness by Arima, and to someone whose only memories so far are of being in solitary confinement, in terrible pain, treated like a dangerous monster- Arima gives him a single half-smile and he probably looks like god.
And Arima makes sure Haise’s quite dependent on him too. Haise doesn’t know anything. Everything he’s aware of, everything he owns, everything he is comes directly from Arima. He’s nearly blind, disoriented, barely able to form words, hurting with the consequences of things he can’t remember doing. He doesn’t even know his own name. He couldn’t form his own opinions on anything if he tried, the entire world is drugged prison food, a straitjacket, shitty guards who would talk about how he shouldn’t have been kept alive right in front of his cell, and… well, Arima.
Arima seems nice to him, especially for what he is, how inherently evil he must be, wasn’t he performing a kind act of service for looking his way- and he gives him EVERYTHING. Holds out a hand, hands him glasses and a way out of the prison cell and a drug that makes him almost like everyone else, the promise of a chance at life The Right Way, an identity to call his own.
So in comparison, Haise probably thinks he’s being treated incredibly well, as the CCG’s pet freak, he’s completely content with being nothing more than a living quinque, because that’s right. He’s allowed to live in his own house, have his own quinque, help younger investigators, the CCG’s so kind to give him that RC suppressant for free, even food. He doesn’t have anything else to go off of. He had no identity before, so anything at all is better.
A name that means nameless is definitely an upgrade from the number 240, right?
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